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Grocery stores join animal-welfare push for more wiggly in their pigglies

The Canadian PressApril 30, 2013 17:15
EDMONTON - A group representing Canadian retailers says eight of Canada's largest supermarket chains have signed on with a push to eliminate factory-farming pens that restrict the movement of pregnant pigs. The Retail Council of Canada says Walmart Canada, Costco Canada, Metro (TSX:MRU.A), Loblaw (TSX:L), Safeway Canada, Federated Co-operatives, Sobey's and Co-op Atlantic have all committed to sourcing their pork from farmers who don't use so-called gestational crates.

Wathba Modern Slaughterhouse Complex opens this month

April 9, 2013 13:31
The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City is now all set for opening Wathba Modern Slaughterhouse Complex, where a contract has been awarded to slaughtering, operation, maintenance and cleaning works contractors, and the facility is expected to start operation and offer slaughtering services to the public during the first half of April. Khalifa Al Rumaithi, Director of Public Health, Municipality of Abu Dhabi City, said, "Wathba Slaughterhouse is the first of its kind in the region in terms of equipment and modernity.

EU endorses plan to fight food fraud after horsemeat scandal

February 15, 2013 11:31
The European Union on Friday approved the immediate launch of a plan to battle food fraud drawn up in the wake of a horsemeat scandal widening across Europe. A European Commission plan to carry out DNA tests on beef products and check in abattoirs for the presence of an equine drug potentially harmful to humans was endorsed at an extreordinary meeting of the EU's Standing Committee of the Food Chain and Animal Health. A statement said the plan would start immediately for one month, and possibly be extended for another two.

Three arrests in Britain over horsemeat scandal

February 14, 2013 15:51
Three men at meat plants in Britain suspected of passing horsemeat off as beef have been arrested Thursday on suspicion of fraud, police said. Two men were arrested in Aberystwyth on the west coast of Wales where a food processing plant is based, and one was detained in West Yorkshire in northern England, where police raided a slaughterhouse on Tuesday. The men arrested in Aberystwyth were aged 42 and 64 and in a simultaneous operation a 63-year-old man was arrested at the Peter Boddy Slaughterhouse in Todmorden, police in Wales said.

Agrichemical giant Syngenta posts 17% profit hike

February 6, 2013 07:47
Swiss-based agrichemical giant Syngenta on Wednesday announced a 17-percent increase in net profit for 2012, outpacing analysts' forecasts. Syngenta posted profits of $1.8 billion, while market-watchers had predicted a figure of $1.7 billion. Revenues for the group, which is based in Basel in northern Switzerland, hit $14.2 billion, up seven percent on the 2011 results, due to an increase in volumes and price rises.
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